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Paul and VirginiaPaul and Virginia In introducing to the Public the present edition of this well known and affecting Tale,the chef d'oeuvre of its gifted author, the Publishers take occasion to say, that it affords them no little gratification, to apprise the numerous admirers of "Paul...
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The Crime of Sylvestre BonnardThe Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard I had put on my slippers and my dressing-gown. I wiped away a tear with which the north wind blowing over the quay had obscured my vision. A bright fire was leaping in the chimney of my study. Ice-crystals,...
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The Quest of the Sacred SlipperThe Quest of the Sacred Slipper I was not the only passenger aboard the S.S. Mandalay who perceived the disturbance and wondered what it might portend and from whence proceed. A goodly number of passengers were joining the ship at Port Said. I was...
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A Thief in the Night: A Book of Raffles' AdventuresA Thief in the Night: A Book of Raffles' Adventures If I must tell more tales of Raffles, I can but back to our earliest days together, and fill in the blanks left by discretion in existing annals. In so doing I may indeed...
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The Sign of the FourThe Sign of the Four Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some...
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern StatesClotelle: A Tale of the Southern States With the growing population in the Southern States, the increase of mulattoes has been very great. Society does not frown upon the man who sits with his half-white child upon his knee whilst the mother stands, a...
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The Way of All FleshThe Way of All FleshSamuel Butler began to write The Way of All Flesh about the year 1872, and was engaged upon it intermittently until 1884. It is therefore, to a great extent, contemporaneous with Life and Habit, and may be taken as a...
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Cyropaedia: The Education of CyrusCyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus A very few words may suffice by way of introduction to this translation of the Cyropaedia. Professor Jowett, whose Plato represents the high-water mark of classical translation, has given us the following reminders: "An English translation ought to be...
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The Blithedale RomanceThe Blithedale Romance The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street. As...
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In Search of the Castaways Or, The Children of Captain GrantIn Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant THE next morning at daybreak a thick fog was clinging to the surface of the river. A portion of the vapors that saturated the air were condensed by the cold, and lay as...
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From the Memoirs of a Minister of FranceFrom the Memoirs of a Minister of France Foreseeing that some who do not love me will be swift to allege that in the preparation of these memoirs I have set down only such things as redound to my credit, and have suppressed the...
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ThaisThais In those days there were many hermits living in the desert. On both banks of the Nile numerous huts, built by these solitary dwellers, of branches held together by clay, were scattered at a little distance from each other, so that the inhabitants...
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The NabobThe Nabob Daudet once remarked that England was the last of foreign countries to welcome his novels, and that he was surprised at the fact, since for him, as for the typical Englishman, the intimacy of home life had great significance. However long he...
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MichaelMichael Though there was nothing visibly graceful about Michael Comber, he apparently had the art of giving gracefully. He had already told his cousin Francis, who sat on the arm of the sofa by his table, that there was no earthly excuse for his...
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Crotchet CastleCrotchet CastleThomas Love Peacock was born at Weymouth in 1785. His first poem, The Genius of the Thames, was in its second edition when he became one of the friends of Shelley. That was in 1812, when Shelleys age was twenty, Peacocks twenty-seven. The...
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Keziah CoffinKeziah Coffin CHAPTER I -- IN WHICH KEZIAH HEARS TWO PROPOSALS AND THE BEGINNING OF A THIRD CHAPTER II -- IN WHICH KEZIAH UNEARTHS A PROWLER CHAPTER III -- IN WHICH KEZIAH ASSUMES A GUARDIANSHIP CHAPTER IV -- IN WHICH KEZIAH'S PARSON DECIDES TO...
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WildfireWildfire For some reason the desert scene before Lucy Bostil awoke varying emotionsa sweet gratitude for the fullness of her life there at the Ford, yet a haunting remorse that she could not be wholly contenta vague loneliness of soula thrill and a fear...
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To the Last ManTo the Last Man It was inevitable that in my efforts to write romantic history of the great West I should at length come to the story of a feud. For long I have steered clear of this rock. But at last I have...
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The Trail of the White MuleThe Trail of the White Mule Casey Ryan, hunched behind the wheel of a large, dark blue touring car with a kinked front fender and the glass gone from the left headlight, slid out from the halted traffic, shied sharply away from a hysterically...
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The History of Caliph VathekThe History of Caliph VathekWilliam Beckford, born in 1759, the year before the accession of King George the Third, was the son of an Alderman who became twice Lord Mayor of London. His family, originally of Gloucestershire, had thriven by the plantations in Jamaica;...
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